Patricia Bunnell

This professor has taught: INST152, INST402, INST752, INST762
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Patricia Bunnell
INST152

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
03/24/2024
For a professor teaching an online class about technology, she does not know how to use it. The lectures are more of a talk about what you read and not learning anything. Also, grading is very very unclear. After a majority of the class complained she finally added what she expected to rubrics, but refused to give back points for anything even when she did not ask us to include things. There is a semester-long group project that we are required to work on during class, even if you don't have anything to do you just have to sit there in silence with the zoom call up or you lose an entire percentage off your grade. For a 100-level class, the grading feels more like a 300-level and overall would not recommend it to anyone.
Patricia Bunnell
INST152

Expecting a W
Anonymous
03/24/2024
She is very disorganized and Elizabeth is really annoying.
Patricia Bunnell
INST152

Anonymous
03/21/2024
She’s okay, like others she seems disorganized even though she’s nice surface level wise. I would say she’s not really your friend though once you get to know her and the TAs grade very harshly. Lectures are incredibly dull and not engaging and the class participation through individual/group work is so unnecessary. She does seem very clueless during lectures and there’s frequent interruptions. But the TAs are the people who really bother me. They dock points for everything.
Patricia Bunnell
INST152

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
03/20/2024
Literally just goes over the readings during lecture. Participation points for staying in breakout rooms for the project, which is pretty dumb considering the majority of people seem to be doing it individually. Grade depends very heavily on who is doing your grading--some graders are seemingly way more nitpicky than others. On at least one occasion I was docked points for not doing something I was not told to do in the instructions or rubric. I was also docked points based on my grader apparently not exercising basic reading comprehension. No joke, at least one of the comments on my rubric demonstrated that they had either neglected to read the title of the article I referenced or did not know basic geography. Take a different gen ed.
Patricia Bunnell
INST152

Expecting a W
Anonymous
03/07/2024
It's weird to have a professor teaching us about use of technology but doesn't seem to know how to do anything with technology. Professor Bunnell has a very disorganized class structure, and it seemingly doesn't matter if you attend the lectures since we don't actually learn anything during them. The professor herself didn't really seem to know what she was talking about. The readings seem to cover common sense strategies instead of what we could actually be looking for to "fact check." Also, my TA (Pineo) is really nitpicking grades and will take off points for literally anything.
Patricia Bunnell
INST152

Expecting a W
Anonymous
02/06/2024
She's a nice professor but she is very unorganized and does not teach. I had to drop her class because I couldn't keep up with her. There weren't a lot of assignments but there were a bunch of readings and she randomly calls on you to answer questions. Very unorganized, I wouldn't recommend taking, find another elective.
Patricia Bunnell
INST402

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/11/2023
There's really nothing to say about this professor's teaching, because Dr. Bunnell did not teach. She took material from Dr. Reitz's course, but did not post her lecture videos, and was not helpful in answering any questions related to the course material. I don't mean this as an attack on her, because it seems that she was replacing Dr. Yang very last minute. Regardless, she was not very helpful in a class that I was very excited to take, and made the class seem very tedious and not very engaging.